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Disney‘s upcoming legacy sequel “TRON: Ares” has a brand new trailer that dropped over the weekend featuring some footage of the film with one of the Program characters out in the real world and being pursued by police while on a light-cycle. “TRON” is set in a universe, created by ENCOM, where digital people inhabit a space where games to the death are commonplace.

In a major throwback to 2006, Jack Black returned to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, and he brought a My Chemical Romance tribute with him.

Filipino director Lav Diaz has revealed that a shortened cut of his long-awaited feature Beatrice, The Wife, starring Gael García Bernal as Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, could premiere in Cannes this May.

Glen Powell held a star-studded party to launch his new food brand Smash Kitchen at a private estate on Friday (April 4) in Los Angeles.

Selome Hailu Mike Myers crashed the cold open of “Saturday Night Live” to play President Trump’s new right-hand man, Elon Musk. “Recently, our dealerships have been the targets of many attacks,” he said in the sketch. “Suddenly no one likes Tesla cars.

Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update has jokes aplenty about Morgan Wallen‘s abrupt departure last week as the show’s credits began rolling.

Robert Irwin is giving us another look at his ripped abs!

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Cinematographer Darius Khondji has confirmed that Ari Aster’s dark comedy Eddington, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone, has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

Yellowjackets joined Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event with a panel featuring the show’s creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and stars Christina Ricci and Melanie Lynskey.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winner Walter Salles, fresh from scoring the best international feature statuette for “I’m Still Here,” discussed the impact of his political drama on youth audiences in Brazil and underlined the importance of cinema as “an extraordinary tool of resistance” while attending the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra workshop in Qatar. “I’m Still Here,” the story of Brazilian activist Rubens Paiva’s 1970 disappearance at the hands of the Brazilian military dictatorship and his wife Eunice Paiva’s subsequent search for justice, recently marked a historic first Oscar win for Brazil.

After 15 years, Disney is finally ready to unleash The Grid with a long-awaited Tron threequel.

Anna Marie de la Fuente At the Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) to present his latest film “Rita” and give a masterclass, Guatemala’s acclaimed filmmaker Jayro Bustamante sat down with Variety to discuss his upcoming projects, “Mountains of Fire” (“Cordillera de Fuego”) which has just completed post-production, and his first comedy, the adaptation of 1998 Spanish romcom “Nada en la nevera” (roughly translated to “Nothing in the Fridge”). Bustamante, whose films have represented his country three times in the Oscars’ Best International Feature category (“Ixcanul,” “Temblores” and “La Llorona”), is known for using the power of film for dealing with such thorny issues as Indigenous rights, systemic oppression and LGBTQ+ rights.

Anna Marie de la Fuente The Panama Int’l Film Festival (IFF Panama) presented a brief opening ceremony April 4, where IFF Panama board president Pituka Ortega-Heilbron heralded the return of documentary filmmaker Ana Endara to the festival with her fiction feature debut “Beloved Tropic.” (“Querido trópico”). Said Endara: “’Beloved Tropic’ ‘has been traveling, but no screening will ever be as special as this one, because it’s a homecoming, and home means Panama, and home means the Panama International Film Festival.” “It’s also special because I’m here with two incredible women who are my creative core, [producer] Isabela Gálvez and [co-writer] Pilar Moreno. And especially because the actresses I had the honor of working with are here, and because so many people contributed to making this film.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Those looking for homegrown talent and stories at the largest documentary film festival in Switzerland, Visions du Réel, will be spoiled for choice in 2025. This year’s edition, which runs April 4-13, features a whopping 31 Swiss productions or co-productions, including the festival’s opening film, Christian Frei’s “Blame.” Veteran Frei, the first-ever Swiss filmmaker to be nominated for an Oscar back in 2002 for “War Photography,” stands alongside a crop of new talent in feature debuts such as Agostina Di Luciano and Leon Schwitter’s “The World Upside Down.” On the healthy crop of Swiss productions and co-productions this year, Charlotte Ducos, documentary and marketing strategies consultant at the country’s national agency Swiss Films, says it is “incredibly important to have Swiss films across the program and to have the opening film of the festival not only be Swiss but also a very expected title by a renowned filmmaker.” Ducos also emphasizes how 43% of Swiss films are currently co-productions, a testament to the importance of collaborating with their European neighbors such as Italy, Germany and Austria.

Concordia Studio has selected four filmmakers for its 2025 Documentary Filmmaker Fellowship, a prestigious artist development program cultivated within the independent film and television production studio co-founded by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim.

For the next 10 days, Miami will be known for sun, sea – and cinema.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Painter and illustrator Robert E. McGinnis, who created sexy posters for the James Bond franchise as well as numerous other films, magazine illustrations and book covers, died March 10 in Old Greenwich, Conn. He was 99.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events.

Napa Valley Film Festival, honoring films that illustrate the relationship between culture, art and food. The awards events will include filmmaker panel discussions, immersive dining experiences, and cooking and beverage classes.

Black Mirror fans were licking their lips and crying “exit game” when Netflix announced a sequel to the much-loved “USS Callister” episode, and creator Charlie Brooker has dished more on how the next installment came about.